Thursday, 6 May 2010

This invitation to all bloggers to post photos of tulips was inspired by the Bloms display at the 1st Tulip Festival at Cambo Gardens in Scotland. Taking a few quick photos after the Anna Pavord talk it wasn’t until I uploaded them that I truly saw in detail the beauty and incredible variety of these flowers. My jaw dropped!! I only wish now I had taken longer to actually look at them.

Please feel free to use and pass around the image above if you wish.

For those going toMalvern, Bloms will be exhibiting in the Floral Marquee so if you want to see these tulips for real yourself you may see them there. I didn’t photograph all the varieties on display at Cambo. Being conscious of the time and others viewing them too I only went for the ones that caught my eye at that moment.

Gosh now… I'm guessing that there has to be a few tulips that have caught your eye here too. I wonder if you could pick three favs from this group of photos. A very hard choice but if really pushed mine would be Flaming Spring Green, Danceline and Abu Hassan.

I now welcome as many postings as possible with tulip photos in the link list below. Past postings would be great too. Please do share the favs from your garden, gardens you have visited or blooms you have seen at garden show. Let’s see how many tulips we can collect in the next week or so.

I loved the photos from Cambo Shirl - I think having the black background really made them stand out. I do like the Spring Green ones and all those ones with the striking red going through the petals.

I planted so many tulip bulbs this year that I had a blister on the palm of my hand when I had finished - and I was late planting them too - just before our dreadful winter took hold.

I see my link is already up here on Mr Linky for my scented ones - someone must have placed it there for me so I thank them for that so I better get a tulip fest link added to my post. But I'm going to take photos of all my tulips this week and add another link.

Hi Shirl :) How to pick three favourites out of this collection of beauties! But, my definite number one with no hesitation is Aria Card...just gorgeous. The other two were more difficult, the second is Creme Lizard and then I'm stuck between Exotic Emperor and Drumline but then of course there is.... :) ...It amazes me how many different ones there are!

Hi Shirl, gorgeous photos. I partiularly love Abu Hassan, and will have ot get some for next year. Thanks for linking to me, I hope to take a few more photos today of flowers that have come out whilst I've been at Malvern. The Blom's Bulbs display at the show was beautiful, but my photos of it were rubbish.

Katarina, they are wonderful aren’t they. I had never seen so many different types before. Good choice, Spring Green was in my second top three! Thanks for joining in. That really is a fascinating one you have just posted… beauty or beast indeed.

Patsi, yes, it’s just a great pity I didn’t look that little bit longer myself :-)

Tatyana, you are most welcome! I had heard about and seen parrots but the lizard was a completely new one to me. Such variety in flower type. Delighted you enjoyed them :-D

Lisa, thanks more luck really. We did hope you did too. By the Mother’s Day comments I’ve seen around I’m guessing it was at the weekend. Hope you had a nice day :-D

Rosie, glad you enjoyed seeing the photos. Oops, the background wasn’t black but in fact a deep blue/green. You can see it back in the Malvern post. I was trying to be quick and didn’t mean to use the flash in my camera as the room was well lit with natural daylight too. When I saw the black backgrounds appearing I then thought of my dark blog background and decided it would work well there and left my camera using the flash. Yes, I love those Spring greens too. Well, looking at your post I can see why you had blisters! What a selection you have there in your own garden. Fantastic. I went searching for links to add, delighted to see you have a custom post now too. Thanks for joining in :-D

Jan, a fav three was a big ask… nice selection there too. I always find it fun to see everyone’s favs. I agree, I couldn’t believe how many different types there were. Thanks, egg laying continues… five now at a guess. Can’t see in the nestbox at the moment :-(

Happy, thank-you. Yep… I’m with you on Abu. You are most welcome for the link. Looking forward to seeing your recent flowers. I need to get a camera out in my own garden too. Can’t post any at the moment until my PC probs get sorted. Photo back up just completed so at least I haven’t lost my tulips ones… that was a worry! Paul at Bloms said he would mail me some photos of his stand. Hopefully he will sometime this week :-D

VP, what a lovely thought… Shirley tulips just for me! Great to see everyone else enjoying them too. Have to confess to having camera shake probs myself. I set my camera to macro and quickly snapped as others were about. The flash went off and I just ignored it for a few shots. On preview mode I saw it gave a black background and as that suited my blog layout I just left it on and kept snapping. Thanks so much for joining me on this. I appreciate you’ve a lot of material for posts at the moment. Thanks for the thumbs up on the Constant Gardener’s post. I’ll add that link now :-D

Shirl, these are gorgeous photos, and I was very interested to see other-than-catalogue photos of some varieties I've toyed with growing. Also interested to see, again, how circumstances alter tulips: 'Blushing Beauty' was a much paler yellow in my garden.

I'm looking forward to dipping into your bank of tulip celebration! Thanks for including links to some of my posts. I think celebrating tulips is an excellent idea, but then, I would.

Hello everyone, thanks for all your comments. I hope you’ve all been having some great gardening weather too :-D

Coastcard, glad you liked it. Greetings Wales :-D

Grace, thanks… sounds good :-D

garden harlot, me too… I’ve very few in my own garden :-)

Karen, yes I thought some were very tasty too. I’d never seen these varieties. I can see by your posting you are a tulip fan. Delighted to be sharing these with you. Thanks for joining me with a posting. Hope you enjoyed searching out more for your list :-D

Denise, I agree completely. I was really taken with them too. You’re most welcome :-D

Suzanne, you are most welcome. I loved your photos :-D

Helen, aren’t they just. Yes, I certainly would. You are most welcome. I loved your displays :-D

Yolanda, lol… I had a feeling you would ;-) You are most welcome… I wasn’t sure you’d still have the same number. I was delighted you got it. By the posts and photos I’ve been seeing it looks like you had a great time. Thanks xo

Layanee, you are most welcome. I love the colour and shape of that ballerina one. Hope you enjoy a great display next year :-D

Tyra, you are most welcome. As a new tulip fan I would tend to agree. Thank-you :-D

Anna, yes the variety is good for suiting everyone’s tastes. Thanks for joining in. I loved your Prinses Irene… just beautiful markings and colour :-D

Threadspider, welcome! Delighted you could join us :-D

Pomona, thank-you. I took my photos in a hurry and really shouldn’t have taken them with a flash as there was enough natural light. The flash was a bonus in a way. However, I’m sure some colours aren’t completely true because of this. Perhaps BB was actually paler. I hope you enjoyed the celebration… I’m guessing you would have. I couldn’t miss out a posting or two from you. You have some stunning images :-D

Andrew, thank-you! Taken in a hurry, I was just lucky that they turned out as they did. Delighted you enjoyed this one :-D

Cheryl, yes… I hadn’t realised the tulip didn’t suit/last in parts of the US. Delighted you enjoyed this too :-D

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